The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 21, sentence 2
It is the hour of prayer and I have not yet washed myself.
Who acts: favour, I · What happens: be, not wash · To what, where: hour, myself
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (favour, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 hour | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 hour | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 hour | det |
| 4 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 prayer | case |
| 6 | prayer | prayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hour | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 washed | cc |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 washed | nsubj |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 washed | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 washed | advmod |
| 11 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 12 washed | advmod |
| 12 | washed | wash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 hour | conj |
| 13 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 washed | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hour | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | favour | the hour | of prayer | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not wash | present · perfect | I | myself | yet | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 128 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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